Brandt Braswell, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Freescale Semiconductor, 3/31/2015 Comment now

If you have worked in the semiconductor industry for more than a few years I am sure you have heard senior leadership speak about the need for your integrated circuit designs to be first pass successes and not the typical two to three spins or more to reach the targeted performance. The question is this: Is first pass success feasible and should be ...

Ask any financial planner for retirement savings advice and the first answer you'll get will always be the same: "It's never too early to start planning for retirement." Much the same advice is true for circuit designers responsible for incorporating circuit protection technologies into the designs of today's increasingly compact wireless and wearable ...

Last time we looked at using ADISimADC in the form of a web-based evaluation tool. As I noted previously, this tool does not require downloaded software to run as it is purely ran from the web. As a reminder, the web-based ADISimADC tool can be accessed online here. Navigating to this web page will bring the user to the page that appears below in Figure ...

Attention all materials innovators who are working on new materials for ultracapacitors, here's a friendly message: If the "value" of the new materials is equal to, or even just slightly lower than that of incumbent materials, there is no chance for adoption. Notice the term value is in quotes. The key to your success lies in your ability to determine ...

In blog number 3, we are going to divert a little from our normal trend of evaluating power supply design and simulation tools. Instead, we are going to look into power management tools that are online.

Editor's note: This guest blog on APEC 2015 is brought to you by Vaibhav Desai and Ian Bower
From Texas Instruments. They are discussing the UCD3138 digital controller which demonstrates on-the-fly firmware updates. Digital Power was a big topic at this year's APEC show, both on the exhibit floor and in the conferences and papers presented.

I never met Richard Feynman but I am glad to say that I played a small role in preserving what he had to say, especially stories about events in his past. I first encountered Feynman's physics books when I was in college in the late '60s. A picture in the forward of the book showed Feynman playing bongo drums. What kind of a physicist could this be, I ...